For more than two decades, Ram Dutt Tripathi reported for the BBC World Service from Lucknow. He was active among student leaders during the Emergency and was also imprisoned. An independent journalist now, he lives in Lucknow.
Seasoned journalist Ram Bahadur Rai was a student leader at the Banaras Hindu University in the years preceding the Emergency, and active with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. He was jailed in Varanasi for his involvement in the protests.…